How To PUNISH Early Queen Attacks & Scholar's Mate

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov teaches you how to brutally punish early queen attacks and Scholar's Mate ideas. It is surprising that millions of chess players still try to fool their opponents with the Scholar's checkmate, but it's time to punish them.

You will learn how to deal with different kinds of early queen attacks and Scholar's Mate. For example, the most direct way where White plays 2.Qh5, then 3.Bc4 aiming for the Qxf7 checkmate, and the other approach (by advanced players) where White plays 2.Bc4 first and then bring our their queen.

It is important for you to know not just how to stop such attacks, but be merciless and brutally punish your opponents for trying such lame tricks against you. You will learn some aggressive ideas and counter-attacking moves that forces your opponent's queen to retreat, or trap their queen, or even checkmate their king!

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00:00 Brutally Punish Early Queen Attacks & Scholar's Mate
01:13 1) If White plays 2.Qh5 and then 3.Bc4
02:39 If White continues playing aggressively for Mate
04:58 If White plays Qb3, targeting f7
07:22 2) If White plays 2.Bc4 and then 3.Qf3
08:45 Counterattacking in the center
10:05 Can you find the winning move for Black?
10:26 If White plays d3 with the idea of Bg5
12:30 White's last attempt in Scholar's Mate

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[goldcoastj]

I really enjoyed this video. Let's have more "merciless and brutally punish" videos.

[albertsinuraya]

Nh5 and the queen is trapped. Beautiful.

[morgansegui]

Thank you, it changed the way I welcome early queen. I am now hoping for it. So good.
You transformed the stress into joy. I repeated the moves for 2 hours on my chessboard to get the principles anchored in my brain. Thanks again!

[Beery]

10:16 Puzzle of the day - Knight to H5. Queen is trapped.

[godlynew]

My friend has been doing the queen start for awhile, and I killed off his queen in less than 5 moves every time before seeing this video, this makes me happy knowing I did something right before someone else had to make a video about it

[tpmunyon]

Dude, you are a tremendous teacher. So impressive.

[italixgaming]

There are four ideas in this position:
1) Nxf2+ : forks the King and the Rook ad Black is clearly winning but this is not the best move.
2) Bxf2 : here we attack the Queen while preparing Bg4+, removing the f3 move. The problem is that White can play Qxg7 and still has Qh6 in case of Rg8 and Nf3 (sacrificing the knight) in case of Bg4+ so this attack wins material but is not deadly.
3) Bg4+ with the idea of Ne1# if Kc2 and Bf2 (or Bxf2) if White blocks, trapping the Queen.
4) Nh5 : attacks the Queen and despite having 13 possible moves, the Queen is also trapped.
So Bg4+ and Nh5 are two ways to destroy White.

[RamKumar-gynb]

Brilliant and fantastic video. Way back 25 years ago when we didnt have youtube, it was so annoying to find a solution to this Scholar's mate and I myself have had felt terrible after losing. People with little or less skills beat you with this humiliation. I know many chess players now still use it as an opening and then build up their positions but they are experienced and know to handle it.
But you have made a very nice video on this. Great work and I can understand the preparation required for making a video (editing, etc.). So thank you again and God bless you.

[lukehudson]

This is amazing. Drilling these lines so I can punish this at low level bullet - it's super common and, even if I can force them back into "even" positions, I end up getting into trouble with some of the other tricks and losing on time. Thank you!!!

[gqecfgp]

I watched this video a few days ago and I was able to successfully trap the queen after my opponent started with the scholar's checkmate and moved their Queen to B3 in line with the Biship at C4. It felt great to counter this attack and trap the queen in the middle of the board. Thank you so much for all of your videos and showing different variations of these attacks.

[kevinwilson]

Your counter attack movements are great. I examine the spots on response and am impressed. Good job 👍

[AntoineDennison]

At 10:21, I would play knight f6 to h5. The Queen has nowhere to go.

[gtheodos]

Thank you for posting these videos. Your explanations are clear and really helpful.

[ZULU]

Black: Bishop g4 check
White: Can't move king to c2 because of mate in 1 with knight e1, so either pawn f3, knight f3, or knight e2 to block. If they block with queen or take g4 bishop then you just capture their queen.
Black: If white just blocks then bishop f2 traps the queen and you win it on the next move.

[gregoryrobertson]

Very well explained, thanks & subscribed 👍

[franktaggart-qsff]

Thank you for the explanation of beat peopleIt’s so nice to hear someone explain things and move to another very good you’re very good teacher thank you

[asmziauddinahmed]

Excellent video. I faced many times with early queen attacks and made me suffer, but now I welcome them to do it again!

[interestedbystander]

New subscriber here. Thanks so much for putting out these videos. Appreciate the effort. Perhaps now I can learn some strategies to win against my kids - they both crush me regularly.

[emwu]

Man... I discovered your channel few days ago and I love it!

[Romeoshadez]

Wow I learned so many small tricks watching this . Ty !